§now

now

A living snapshot of where my time goes. Updated when focus shifts — not on a schedule.

last updated · jun 2026

§buildingbuilding

  • QIK v1.0.x

    Maintaining the campus companion app — patching attendance sync edge cases and prepping a v1.1 feature branch (timetable push notifications).

  • NbkristQik at scale

    Hardening the bot for 3k+ daily users — Redis cache tuning, query batching, and a quieter error pipeline.

  • this portfolio

    Iterating on the Studio Ink system — command palette, scroll-spy, build-time blog feed. Always something.

§learninglearning

  • Rust

    Working through ownership, lifetimes, and async — prepping for systems-level GSoC contributions.

  • MCP servers

    Building small MCP tools (mcp-searxng, MDXPDF-MCP) to understand the protocol end-to-end.

  • Distributed caching

    Reading on Redis clustering and invalidation strategies — practical patterns from the NbkristQik load.

§usingusing

  • editor

    VS Code with the Custom CSS & JS Loader — Fraunces in the editor, acid-lime cursor, hand-tuned UI.

  • stack

    Next.js 16 (Turbopack), React 19, TypeScript 5, Tailwind 4, pnpm. Minimal deps, fast builds.

  • terminal

    pwsh 7 + git + pnpm. Keeping it boring and reliable.

§towardworking toward

  • GSoC 2026

    Selecting an organization, scoping a project, and stacking contribution history. Open to mentors reaching out.

  • First Rust release

    A small CLI or library shipped to crates.io before the year ends — the goal is finishing, not scope.

§note

Inspired by nownownow.com — a /now page tells people what you're focused on right now, not what you've ever done.